Assessing the Health of Bitcoin
https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-network-health/?
When investing in bitcoin as an asset, or companies that build on top of the Bitcoin network as part of an asset mix, we need some set of metrics with which to evaluate the progress of the investment thesis, and by extension, the health of the Bitcoin network. It’s more than just a price on […]
House GOP leaders eye Democrats for help on $80 billion tax bill as Republicans defect
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-leaders-eye-democrats-help-80b-tax-bill-republicans-defect
Meanwhile, top members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus told Fox News Digital that hardliners have their separate issues with the bill, namely arguing that the CTC can be claimed by illegal immigrants who have children in the United States.
Where Is This Pandemic Threat?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/where-is-this-pandemic-threat-5571048
In the detailed statistical review of 100 years of pandemic threats, they show that pandemic risk is dramatically decreasing, not increasing. That has been true for a very long time. Data that shows the contrary is due to better pathogenic surveillance but overall deaths from pandemics show that they are getting more mild by the year.
The one exception is Ebola but even here, it “is a localized disease and normally rapidly contained.”
War Is Always Inflationary
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/war-is-always-inflationary-5570769
The United States spends nearly three times more on defense than does China and 10 times more than does Russia. At the same time, the depletion of U.S. military stockpiles and other reserves is accelerating through multiple conflicts
Apocalypse in the Air
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/apocalypse-in-the-air-5548895
I’ve gone on too much about our dark night of the soul, which, by the way, is a meditative poem about the relationship of God and man as written by St. John of the Cross. His core point, if I may dare to sum it up, is as follows. The darkness is our opportunity to learn, discover, find our way out, and emerge on the other side with more strength, conviction, and awareness of our purpose and the meaning of life.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s Decision Disqualifying President Trump
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-colorado-supreme-courts-decision-disqualifying-president-trump-5550765
“As the dissenting justices pointed out, disqualification for public office is a drastic punishment that should be inflicted only after compliance with all due process standards: timely notification, disclosure of evidence among the parties, an impartial adjudicator, the right to call witnesses, the right to cross-examine, time to prepare, and—because of the seriousness of the punishment—proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The CCP’s Gene Warfare
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-ccps-gene-warfare-5549318
In 2021, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned that Beijing is attempting to dominate the bioeconomy by building the world’s largest biological database. Although much of the DNA data gathering is done by private companies, they are still tools of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through its "military-civil fusion" policy.
“Compared with traditional biological weapons and chemical weapons, genetic weapons are more concealable, deceptive, easy to spread and harmful in the long term, and are difficult to prevent, difficult to isolate and low-cost. Once used in war, the consequences will be devastating.”
So, even if the CCP has not yet deployed such weapons, it is clearly thinking about them.
[Rom 8:6-9 ESV] 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
[1Jo 3:9-10 ESV] 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
I love both James White and R.C. Sproul. The book debate to which I referred earlier was between James White and Dave Hunt. Another favorite is John MacArthur. I have also been blessed by John Piper's books and teaching.
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